360 NOCTUID.E. 



4007. Athetis gluteosa. 



Caradrina gluteosa, Treit. Schmett. Eur. x. ii. p. 80(1835); HfFm. Gr. 



Schmett. Eur. ed. ii. pi. 44. f. ]8; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 198. 

 HydriUa uliginosa, Boisd. Ind. Meih. p. 138(1840); Herr.-Schaff. Eur. 



Schmett., Noct. ff. 203, '291. 

 Caradrina grisesoens, Pouj. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1887, p. clvii. 



(S . Head and thorax reddish brown tinged with grey ; palpi 

 black-brown, pale at tips; pectus and legs brown; abdomen 

 whitish tinged with red-brown. Fore wing glossy greyish ochreuus 

 irrorated with brown, the terminal area suffused with red-brown ; 

 subbasal line brown, from costa to median nervure ; antemedial 

 line brown, rather near base, oblique, waved ; orbicular a dark 

 point; reniform small, brown, with somewhat darker outline; a 

 medial brown shade, oblique from costa to reniform, then waved ; 

 postmedial line dark, strongly bent outwards below costa, then 

 dentate and produced to points on the veins, oblique below vein 4 ; 

 subterminal line pale defined on inner side by brown, angled out- 

 wards at vein 7 and oblique below vein 3; a terminal series of dark 

 striae ; cilia with slight greyish line near tips. Hind wing whitish 

 tinged with red-brown especially on terminal area from apex to 

 vein 2 ; the underside with the costal area suffused and irrorafed 

 with brown, a slight dark discoidal spot, traces of a diffused post- 

 medial line from costa to discal fold and a fine dark terminal line. 



$ , Head, thorax, and fore wing rather greyer, the last with the 

 pale subterminal line more prominent. 



Hab. Belgium; Germany; Austria, Tirol, Carinthia ; Hungary, 

 Leech Coll.; Switzerland, Valais ; S. Kussia ; Armenia; W.Turk- 

 estan, Ferghana ; E. Turkestan, Hi ; Mongolia, Urga ; Tibet, 

 Kuku-nor, Amdo; E. Siberia, Dahuria, Ussuri ; Corka, Gensan 

 (Leech), 1 ? ; W.China, Moupin. Exp. 6 32-36, ? 26-V8 millim. 



Larva. Kirhy, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 175 ; Hffm. Roup. p. 110. 



Grey, with indistinct pale dorsal and subdorsal lines with oblique 

 dark streaks between them. Food-plants : Low-growing herbs. 3. 



4008. Athetis tarda. (Plate CXXX. fig. 32.) 



Caradrina tarda, Guen. Noct. i. p. 243 (1852) ; Smith, Cat. ]N"oct. N. Am. 



p. 195. 

 Anorthodes prima, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xviii. p. 115 (1891) ; id. 



Cat. Koct. N. Am. p. 198. 



Head and thorax reddish brown slightly tinged with grey; palpi 

 dark brown, pale at tips; abdomen greyish suffused with rufous. 

 Fore wing pale glossy red-brown tinged with grey, the terminal 

 area rather darker; subbasal line blackish, curved, from costa to 

 median nervure ; antemedial line blackish, angled outwards below 

 costa, incurved in cell, then oblique ; orbicular a rather elongate 

 black point; reniform a faint dark bar ; medial line rather indis- 

 tinct, oblique from costa to reniform, sinuous from cell to inner 



